I am trying to get some carbide chain from the US. In Oz it costs a fortune, even taking shipping, conversion and tax into account. for instance, to buy a couple of TCT chains from the US, and also a couple of "Carbide impregnated" ones, will cost me $450 delivered, in $Aud. To buy in Oz would cost Aud$750. If you see my point.
I found one place (Baileys) that deals in Rapco chain. Baileys say Rapco do not make a chain in carbide to suit my smaller saw (Husky
136, and probably known as Low Profile) but I know it can be had.
Rapco's site (rapcoindustries.com) seems dead.
Tilton Online sell only in the US. They did not get as far as indicating whether they had suitable chain, but in any case are only dealers for Rapco.
There was one other mob I emailed. They dealt with rescue chain. And yet another that cost as much as Oz anyway.
So does anyone know anyone other than Rapco that deals in TCT chain for wood purposes?
Sometimes in a workplace you find snot on the wall of the toilet cubicles. You feel "What sort of twisted child would do this?"....the internet seems full of them. It's very sad
Sometimes in a workplace you find snot on the wall of the toilet cubicles. You feel "What sort of twisted child would do this?"....the internet seems full of them. It's very sad
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:10:11 GMT, "Karl Vorwerk" vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!: remove ns from my header address to reply via email
Sometimes in a workplace you find snot on the wall of the toilet cubicles. You feel "What sort of twisted child would do this?"....the internet seems full of them. It's very sad
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:42:39 -0500, Bob Robinson vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!: remove ns from my header address to reply via email
They may well be. But as I said, their site just will not show up. I even tried manually adding it to my firewall, and also closing the wall down, but it just comes up dead every time.
Hmm ... they come up fine for me right now. Earlier today (actually yesterday by now) there was a major DNS server under DDoS attack, which might account for your problems.
Or it may be that *their* firewall is blocking anything from out-of-country. I've gotten a lot of spam sent from OZ sites -- as I am sure that you have gotten a lot sent by US sites. I'm not blocking OZ, but I am blocking as much as I can of China and Korea (among other places).
You could try replacing the domain name with the IP address and see if that will get you through (which would shortcut DNS lookup problems). Here are the results of my nslookup run:
You could also try a traceroute (if you've got that program in your system). That could tell you where the connection is failing. It could be anywhere between your system and theirs. I get as far as the same class-C block before the traceroute dies, so I suspect that they have some form of firewall blocking ICMP packets (which traceroute depends upon).
====================================================================== traceroute to 216.242.0.56 (216.242.0.56), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 SkinnyBox (204.91.85.1) 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 2 209.116.196.213 (209.116.196.213) 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 3 165.117.192.198 (165.117.192.198) 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 4 165.117.175.129 (165.117.175.129) 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 5 165.117.67.62 (165.117.67.62) 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 6 165.117.64.9 (165.117.64.9) 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 7 206.111.0.17.ptr.us.xo.net (206.111.0.17) 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 8 sl-st21-ash-6-2.sprintlink.net (144.223.246.113) 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 9 sl-bb26-rly-5-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.149) 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms
10 sl-bb22-atl-11-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.19.177) 60 ms 54 ms 36 ms
11 sl-bb20-orl-11-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.19.74) 35 ms 32 ms 35 ms
12 sl-gw11-orl-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.2.226) 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms
13 sl-ciberlynxinc-48-0-0.sprintlink.net (160.81.59.50) 38 ms 37 ms 37 ms
14 216.242.114.19 (216.242.114.19) 41 ms 41 ms 41 ms
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On 16 Jun 2004 01:23:47 -0400, snipped-for-privacy@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!: remove ns from my header address to reply via email
I wondered if I was being blocked somehow. The site is still dead to me, either direct or via a reroute via a link etc.
Weirdly enough that IUP address came up with
formatting link
which was also dead to me.
I have faxed them, and certainly I am not dishing them up a serve over the site being unobtainable.....for a start I _want_ something from them! I have not had a reply as yet.
I will try the email. I got the fax from another site's info about them, but iut dod not have an email address.
Have you tried this mob TCT Pacific Chain & Tool Co. P.O. Box 741, Avalon. NSW. 2107 Phone: (02) 9973 2032, 1300 666 031, Fax: (02) 9973 2019 Email: snipped-for-privacy@ozemail.com.au Contact: Grant and Lynelle Adams. Suppliers of Sabre sawchain from John Deere, USA, Silvey chain & bar grinders, tree jacks, bars, Viiala files, P.P.E. Comprehensive range of tungsten carbide chainsaw chain.
On 16 Jun 2004 01:23:47 -0400, snipped-for-privacy@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!: remove ns from my header address to reply via email
Don. This is weird. I tried _emailing_ one of those emsil addresses. Nuh!
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:20:06 +1000, "David Chambers" vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!: remove ns from my header address to reply via email
hmmm....apparently being part of the alliance of the fai...willing does not extend its good nature into the industrial world?
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:53:48 +1000, diesel_fuel vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!: remove ns from my header address to reply via email
Thanks, but yes. See above about pricing. They were the Oz price. If I could only _find_ the chain, it poisses me off a bit. I, as a simngle buyer can get chain for
I've just e-mailed them (both addresses), explaining the problem as perceived.
In the meanwhile, is your e-mail address given above a valid one? I was going to include your e-mail address in my e-mail, so they could try from that end. But unless I am sure that it is a valid e-mail address, I won't try that.
And is it one of the challenge-and-response ones? If so, they may decide that it is too much trouble to bother with. I personally
*hate* challenge-and-response systems -- especially those which don't even tell me what address I supposedly sent to, so I can be sure that I'm authenticating myself, instead of a spammer. :-)
On 16 Jun 2004 01:23:47 -0400, snipped-for-privacy@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!: remove ns from my header address to reply via email
Just OOI. I get as far as your step 12, and then everything "times out" even if I set 10000 as a timeout. That's 100% repeatable. So you get a coupe of steps further than I do!
On 16 Jun 2004 22:42:39 -0400, snipped-for-privacy@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!: remove ns from my header address to reply via email
I _think_ email addresss in text are safe so far....
remove ns from my header address to reply via email
snipped-for-privacy@dodo.com.au No gotchas. It just stays on my provider's site, I collect manually, and I will dump it if I start to have trouble. Sort of a "challenge and response". If I get someone genwine, I let them know my proper email address. Any correspondence from then on is via that one.
Well, I see it was produced with that puss-filled, oozing bit of excrement - FrontPage (not that I have strong opinons about that sort of thing *smile*). That might be flaking out your browser. Make sure you have the current version of the browser, (I happen to prefer Opera, but Netscape is still ok...and IE should work...probably), and, make sure that JavaScript is turned on. I don't know if cookies are a problem...in any case, it comes up fine in MY browser (Opera 7.5x) Regards Dave Mundt
I've gotten a response from them, and I'll cut-and-paste it from their response.
====================================================================== Don, We have received e-mail from N F White and have responded but are not sure we have gotten through. We have an exclusive distributor for Australia: "BILLEROY""
195 BAILEY'S LANE OBERON NSW 27 AUSTRALIA
e-mail Keith Cleton ( snipped-for-privacy@ix.net.au
Ron ======================================================================
Is that (N F White) you?
It sounds as though they could not sell direct to you, if they have an exclusive distributor there. But hopefully, the mark up for them is not too bad.
It sounds as though that is where the blocking is occurring. If we got similar results from other OZ members running the same traceroute, that would make it sure.
Apparently, they (the company) don't know anything about any blocking, and they *did* receive your e-mail (as covered in a reply in a different branch of the thread).
As it turns out, there seems to be little point to continuing to try to reach them, as they have an exclusive distributorship agreement with someone in OZ (also covered in the other thread branch).
On 17 Jun 2004 16:29:05 -0400, snipped-for-privacy@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!:
remove ns from my header address to reply via email
Thanks, Don.
Huh? My email bounced! I had a bounce, let alone get a reply!
It is me. Ahah! I faxed them! Not email. Email would have been "nfwhite"
TMK I have not had a fax back from them. I'll try again.
Did they say anything about the website?
humph! We shall see....maybe. Sounds like a farmer thinking "That's a good idea", to me.
I know Bailey's (naming coincidence) in the US were happy to sell to me, exclusive or not. But they just keep saying the chain won't fit, and I disagree. That's why I wanted to talk to Rapco.
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